We have been researching the pages of the major manufacturers that work with AMD to see which ones have 12 or 14 Compute Unit models on AMD RX 560 graphics cards.
The recent controversy regarding the AMD RX 560, which are sold with 896 Stream Processors or with 1024 Stream Processors. This controversy is based on the fact that the AMD website does not differentiate between two RX 560 models, but it does indicate that the GPU can have 14 Compute Units, which is equivalent to 896 Stream Processors and another GPU with 16 Compute Units, which is equivalent to 1024 Stream Processors. This situation is quite anomalous, mainly because it is an AMD strategy to get rid of the old models.
This situation arises this summer, with the presentation of the AMD RX 560D, which are characterized by being simply renowned AMD RX 460, in order to get rid of all the stock in the warehouses. The differentiation born for the Asian market, which aims to offer an even cheaper solution, has now jumped to the general market, by all assemblers that work with AMD. The last we know is that the company will study this problem and talk to assemblers and retailers to clearly specify the Compute Units for the graphics cards.
We have done our own research and we have found three different situations among the main assemblers on the market. The first one has MSI, PowerColor and Gigabyte as protagonists, who do not give data on their web pages about the Stream Processors of the RX 560, possibly because they only have a model of 1024 Stream Processors, but there is an important data missing in terms of characteristics offered by manufacturers.
The second situation has Sapphire and XFX as protagonists, who do provide the Stream Processors of the RX 560, being all 1024 Stream Processors, models of 896 Stream Processors do not appear on their website. Finally, the third case is ASUS, which has a great variety of RX 560 models and shows in this case that it has models with 1024 Stream Processors, which are the majority and has two models with 896 Stream Processors, in this case, both models in the name is called 'EVO', so they are easily identifiable.
